Women’s World Cup 2019: Crazy stats from USA-Thailand

Thailand wasn’t expected to provide much opposition for the United States in the defending champions’ 2019 World Cup opener, and that’s exactly how things played out Tuesday.

The U.S. rolled to a 13-0 victory in the Group F opener in Reims, never threatened by its overwhelmed opponent.

Here’s a look at some of the crazy numbers, courtesy of Opta:

• The United States’ 13-0 win is the largest margin of victory ever in a World Cup match (men’s and women’s).

• The United States took 40 shots against Thailand, 20 of which were on target. Both are the most in a Women’s World Cup match since at least 2011.

• Alex Morgan tied the Women’s World Cup record with five goals. She also had three assists and eight goals plus assists, the most by any player since 2011. Only three other players have had 3-plus goals and 1-plus assists in a Women’s World Cup match.

• Morgan joined Carli Lloyd, Carin Jennings and Michelle Akers as the only Americans to record a hat trick in the WWC.

5 – Alex Morgan is the second player in #FIFAWWC history to score five goals in a single game, doing so 27 years and 199 days after fellow @USWNT international Michelle Akers managed this feat against Chinese Taipei in November 1991. Decimated. pic.twitter.com/kkl7kay7Rz

• Lloyd and Morgan now each have eight goals in the Women’s World Cup, tied for the third-most ever by an American.

• There were just six minutes between USA’s 4th and 7th goals against Thailand (50, 53, 54, 56), the fastest four goals have ever been scored in a single Women’s World Cup match in the competition’s history.

• The USWNT became the first team in Women’s World Cup history to have three different players record a brace in the same match.

• Rose Lavelle (24 years, 28 days) and Lindsey Horan (25 years, 16 days) are the third- and fourth-youngest Americans, respectively, to record a brace in a Women’s World Cup match.

• Mallory Pugh (21y 1m 13d) is now the third-youngest goalscorer in a Women’s World Cup match in USWNT history..

• Rapinoe also tallied two assists, giving her six in Women’s World Cup play, tied with Japan’s Aya Miyama for the most in tournament history.

1+1+1 – The US is the first team to score a headed goal, right-footed goal and a left-footed goal in the first half of a #FIFAWWC match since Germany and Norway both did so on on the same matchday in June 2015. Versatility. pic.twitter.com/GfYHleeF8y

• The USWNT has now had 32 different players (excluding own goals) score for them at the Women’s World Cup, making the US the second nation to have that many different scorers in the competition’s history after Germany (34).

• Samantha Mewis’ opening goal for USA was the 800th goal scored in FIFA Women’s World Cup matches, with USA responsible for 116 of them – more than any other team.